VAST Perspectives
6 Aspects of Digital Compliance
The biggest challenge for data protection and compliance is the sheer volume of data that needs to be protected and brought into compliance. Protecting the data appropriately requires understanding it, but that’s difficult. Not only is the volume high, much of the...
Switching to Cloud Means Changing Your IT Management Focus
Switching to cloud isn’t simply switching one technology for another. There’s a whole set of non-technological changes that come along with cloud as your organization adapts its operations, support, and management structures to match the needs of cloud. The...
Comparing AWS VCP vs. Azure VNET
Companies continue to shift their networking services to the cloud, either hosted publicly or in a hybrid fashion, including virtual route tables, firewalls and gateways, management software, load balancers, static and dynamic IP addresses, subnetworks and VLANs....
Ransomware and Other Attacks Are Making Disaster Recovery More Critical than Ever
It seems every day brings new reports of hacking incidents affecting businesses’ ability to conduct operations. While this emphasizes the need for a strong information security strategy, it also highlights the need for an effective disaster recovery solution to ensure...
6 Benefits of Switching to Microsoft 365
While most businesses are committed to switching to cloud-based computing, there are those that have tried to hold off, preferring to keep their hardware and software resources on premises. The end of support for Office 2010 gives those holdouts a push towards cloud,...
You Aren’t Ready to Write a Cloud Migration Plan If You Haven’t Done Cloud Discovery
A successful migration to the cloud starts with a complete migration plan. But writing that plan isn’t the first step of a transition to cloud. Due diligence requires that before writing the migration plan, businesses should complete a detailed discovery and...
Use Security Lifecycle Review to Select Meaningful Security Metrics
Metrics are one of management’s most important tools, but only when the right metrics are chosen. Pick the wrong metrics, and you’ll spend a lot of time and money optimizing numbers that don’t really matter. The right metrics are the ones that align with business...
Cloud Cost Savings Don’t Come All at Once
There are many reasons for migrating to cloud. If the justification for your switch to cloud was cost savings, where do you find them? There’s a ““big bang” moment of cost savings from the transition to cloud. But it’s the ongoing expansion of cloud usage that leads...
AWS EBS CSI Driver Available
The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available. The EBS CSI driver makes it simple to configure and use block storage for applications running in both Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and self-managed...
3 Simplification Goals to Support Digital Transformation
Many organizations were forced to transform how they did business over the past year. Continuing with that growth and making transformations permanent requires looking at problems with new eyes to envision new solutions. One of the biggest ongoing challenges is the...
